Setting up the installation

To install the Isotope Demo, you need to have a fresh installation of Contao 4.0 at hand. Installing Contao 4.13 can be done according to the manual (currently in german only) using the Contao Manager.

Installing the demo files

The Isotope Demo for Contao 4.13 needs to be installed through the Contao Manager. Our ZIP package contains all necessary files as well as the dependencies, so all required packages are installed automatically.

Get the demo-master.zip on Github and upload this file in the Contao Manager via "Upload packages" or via Drag&Drop. Make sure to confirm uploads and «Apply Changes» to run the installation.

Configuring the database

To finalize the installation, the demo data needs to be imported into your database. Because Isotope eCommerce adds some news datbase fields, it's important to follow the steps in the manual! Data import and updating the database structure is accomplished in the Contao install tool.

Step 1: Update the database to create the initial table structure for Isotope eCommerce.

Step 2: Import the template isotope-demo/isotope-demo-attribute.sql to configure the additional database fields.

Step 3: Now you have to rebuild the Application Cache in the Contao Manager, so Contao will find the new database fields.

Step 4: After clearing the cache, Contao will find new database fields that again need to be added in the install tool.

Step 5: Finally, the full demo data can be added by importing the template isotope-demo/isotope-demo-data.sql. Make sure to also check the Do not truncate the tables checkbox to keep data from the import in step 2.

Et voilà!

You can now check the front end or log in in the back end via http://www.yourdomain.org/contao/login as Kevin Jones.

(username: k.jones and password: kevinjones)